Taking a seasoned look at time and cycles, acclaimed poet Lawrence Bridges guides readers through this liminal period between years with his brilliant “Rotation”. Lawrence explained to The Dewdrop, “‘Rotation’ meditates on humanity’s adaptation to time cycles, contrasting habitual acceptance with a yearning for deeper awareness as evolution turns dinosaurs into birdsong.”
Rotation
Adapted as we are
to this turning and turning,
accepting sunsets,
sleep, and running
out of time as a given,
feeling the heaviness
of our evolution between rock
and air as elk their horns—
why this turning
and not each morning
awakening to the ripe
framed photos around
the house animating
precise nostalgias
of all our moments here,
not a march into darkness
to remember the price we’ve paid,
day into night, to merely hear
that dinosaurs evolved to birdsong.
Lawrence Bridges
Lawrence Bridges’ poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Tampa Review. He has published three volumes of poetry: Horses on Drums (Red Hen Press, 2006), Flip Days (Red Hen Press, 2009), and Brownwood (Tupelo Press, 2016). You can find him on IG: @larrybridges
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